Introduction to AgriScience

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Introduction to AgriScience Technology

• Mr. Ham

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Human Food Needs

• Energy
• Growth and Repair
• Good Health
• Body Processes

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Sources of Food

• Fruits
• Apples
• Flowers
• Cauliflower
• Stems
• Celery
• Multiple Parts
• Turnip (leaves and roots)

• Plants
• 250,000 plants on earth
• 600 are used for food
• Leaves
• Lettuce
• Seeds
• Beans
• Roots
• Potatoes

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Animal Sources

• Terrestrial
• Animals that live on land
• Aquatic
• Animals that live in water
• Meat
• Eggs
• Milk

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Fiber (Clothing)

• Animal Fibers
• Wool
• Fur
• Silk

• Plant Fibers
• Cotton
• Flax
• Hemp
• Jute
• Sisal
• Synthetics
• Those made by man

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Wood Products

• Lumber
• Plywood
• Veneer
• Composition Board
• Paper

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Definition of Agriculture

• Agriculture
• The science of growing crops and raising
  livestock.

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Innovations in Agriculture

• Charles Townshed
• 1st crop rotation system
• Jethro Tull
• Developed seed planting machine in early 1700s.
• Eli Whitney
• Cotton gin
• Cyrus McCormick
• Patented a harvesting machine (reaper) in 1834

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• John Deere
• 1837 1st steel moldboard plow
• Gregor Mendel
• Austrian botanist
• Discovered basic principles of heredity
• Silver Bullet Era
• 1940s-1950s
• New pesticides on market
• Dramatically increases yields.
• Biotechnology Era
• 1984 entered stock market
• 1995 RoundUp Ready Soybeans

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Areas of Agriculture

• Supplies and Services
• Machinery and equipment
• Seed
• Chemicals
• Feed and animal medicines
• Production Agriculture
• Marketing and Processing

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Impact of Agriculture

• 1.6 Involved in production ag.
• 15-17 work in the agricultural industry